Speaking of Indigenous Politics:Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders

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Author: Kauanui, J Kehaulani

ISBN: 9781517904784

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Binding: Paperback

Pub Date: June 10, 2018

424 pages

Many people learn about Indigenous politics only through the most controversial and confrontational news: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's efforts to block the Dakota Access Pipeline, for instance, or the battle to protect Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, a site sacred to Native peoples. But most Indigenous activism remains unseen in the mainstream--and so, of course, does its significance. J. Kehaulani Kauanui set out to change that with her radio program Indigenous Politics. Issue by issue, she interviewed people who talked candidly and in an engaging way about how settler colonialism depends on erasing Native peoples and about how Native peoples can and do resist. Collected here, these conversations speak with clear and compelling voices about a range of Indigenous politics that shape everyday life.